As for the nuggets, Diego and Juan were not niggards with them, and would have melted them away in the warmth of their generosity in a very short time, had not Vicente Yanez Pinzon, the brother next to Martin Alonzo, and the captain of the _Niña_, taken him aside and talked with him.
Well, he had already been generous enough, so he permitted his cousin to take his money and put it in a safe place. And, indeed, some of the property bought with that money can be seen to this day, still owned by a Pinzon, too, in the little town of Moguer, about a league from Palos.
After that? Well, after that Diego and Juan made many a voyage to the newly discovered countries, and lived to learn what Christoval Colon never did learn--that they had actually discovered a new continent, and not Asia at all.
[Illustration: “DIEGO RELATES HIS ADVENTURES TO THE CONVENT BOYS.”]
And they were with Vicente Yanez Pinzon when he and that Italian, Amerigo Vespucci, made the voyage together--an account of which voyage being widely read over Europe was the means of gaining for Vespucci the unmerited honor of having been the first to reach the continent, whereby his name is to this day attached to the country discovered.
--Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
--A Table of Contents for Chapters was not in the original work; one has been produced and added by Transcriber.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Diego Pinzon and the Fearful Voyage he took into the Unknown Ocean A.D. 1492, by John Russell Coryell
